Improvement in washing-machines



c. B. CAMP & c. OSTERHOUT'.

WASHING-MACHINE.

. WITN ESS ES Patented Feb 1,1876.

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CHARLES B. CAMP AND CHRISTIAN OSTERHOUT, OF WHITE PIGEON, MICH.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 172,964, dated February 1, 1876 I application file December 31, 1875.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES B. CAMP and CHRISTIAN OS'IERHOUI, of White Pigeon,

. in the county of St. Joseph and State of Micht gan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines; and we do,

and it consists in the construction and general arrangement of the frame with an upper large roller pressed downward by springs, and operating on a bed of two smaller rollers balanced in pivoted arms and pressed upward by springs, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. 4

In the annexed drawing, A A represent two and bottom board, C. D'is the upper large washing-roller, fluted iii-the usual manner,

and having its journals a (it placed in vertical slots in the side pieces A, the journals being pressed downward by springs b b operating upon the journal-boxes d On top of' the springs 12 b in the slots in "the side pieces is placed a cross-bar, E, operated upon by a setscrew, G, for regulating the tension of the springs. H H are the two smaller lower rollers, which have their journals at each end of the machine placed in the ends of a bar, h, which is hung centrally in a slotted post, I,

t. At'one end of the bottom board C are two projecting pins, w m, which are to enter holes in a bar, J, secured on the inner side of the tub, said bar being recessed to fit over the corners of the board. The other end of the board C is extended beyond the frame and slotted longitudinally. In this slot is placed a grooved slide, K, extending downward a suitable distance, and provided on its outer edge with a projecting pin, y. The slide K is held in the board 0 by a pin or bolt, m, :passing through a slot in the slide, allowing the same to move out and in for a suitable distance. In fastening the machine to the tub the pins :0 at one end of the board 0 are in serted in the bar J, and a wedge, L, is placed in the 'slot at the other end, between the slide and end piece, and driven down, forcing the slide outward against the side of the tub and the pin 3 into the same, thus holding the machine firmly in the tub.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is parallel side pieces, connected by a top bar, B, p

In awashing-machine, the combination of the large yielding washing-roller D, the smaller .rollers H H, hung in the balanced bars-h h,

the slotted posts I I, and springs & t, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BARTON CAMP.

CHRISTIAN OSTERHOUT.

Witnesses: I GEO. W. BEIsEL, B. PEoK.

said post being held up by means of a spring, 

